1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:13,840 This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 3,915 for Friday 4 August 2023. 2 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:18,840 Today's show is entitled, While The Hell is My Audio Clipping. 3 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:23,680 It is hosted by Mr. X, and is about 13 minutes long. 4 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:26,480 It carries an explicit flag. 5 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:40,560 The summary is, Mr. X has audio that is clipping but will he be able to fix it. 6 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:45,800 You are listening to a show from the Reserve Q. We are airing it now because we had 7 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:48,800 free slots that were not filled. 8 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:54,640 This is a community project that needs listeners to contribute shows in order to survive. 9 00:00:54,640 --> 00:01:24,160 Please consider recording a show for Hacker Public Radio. 10 00:01:24,320 --> 00:01:30,640 Hello and welcome Hacker Public Radio. My name is Mr. X and welcome to this podcast. 11 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:35,760 As usual, I would like to start by thanking the people of HPR for making this podcast 12 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:37,600 available to us all. 13 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:44,400 HPR is a community led podcast provided by the community for the community. That means you can 14 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:51,200 contribute to. If everybody loses this podcast, send them just one show a year then we have more 15 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:57,280 shows than we know what to do with. If I can do it, you can. It is great fun. 16 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:14,000 This show, for us that, that is my tip at adding effects. I am going to take it to the 17 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:23,200 ad effects and properly. This is an emergency show. HPR is short on shows and so if you could send one 18 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:32,480 and just one a year we would have plenty. Anyway, this episode is history put together and it's 19 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:40,240 really more for myself rather than for the listeners but you are obviously more than happy 20 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:45,760 to listen to if you want and maybe we will be entertaining. I don't know. I think I was 21 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:51,440 talking about a couple last two or three episodes of noticed where my audio has been clipping. 22 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:58,560 Actually, as I am recording this and when I was doing some of these noises for example, I 23 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:02,160 did notice a bit of clipping but there is no clipping happening at the moment. I am using a 24 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:14,400 audacity and I usually do and the last two issues I noticed were clipping. I normally add an 25 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:20,960 intro sound, an intro track for a few seconds and that was clipping. Now I am going to be clipping 26 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:26,640 it actually I noticed there. Anyway, the point was that when I listened to back to the 27 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:34,480 alarm list and back to preview an MP3 format and it sounded fine and I went back and listened to 28 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:40,160 the flag files which I sent to HPR. I mentioned the list a day ago when I was running a chat 29 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:52,880 and we mean they were both having a chat and there was no distortion or clipping that I could hear 30 00:03:53,440 --> 00:04:03,200 what I normally do is record audio and then I'll add some audio compression to the 31 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:16,480 speech part of the audio and then leave it that. So what I am planning to do is I am going to read a little 32 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:29,440 bit out from the HPR site and then add a little bit of attenuation each time and see how much I 33 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:42,240 need to ensure that there is no clipping. So I have just opened a browser and that is just a step 34 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:47,680 when it was just a secure tool. This was hastily put together so if I google for a 35 00:04:53,680 --> 00:05:06,000 public video, I have a public video and I am going to go to give shows because that is what I am looking 36 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:17,600 for, give shows and so what is it say? So I wonder what is what it is but I will decide to read 37 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:23,760 now there is a section, stuff you need to know that is one, two, is like the topic, three 38 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:32,480 record your show, four up with your show, questions, still nervous, our motto is important, 39 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:39,200 our motto is any audio is better than no audio, so don't try to be perfectionist, just send 40 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:43,920 something then, any topic of interest to hackers, what is just about anything really, 41 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:51,520 it ain't a show unless it is on the server so no point crank procrastinating in 42 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:58,480 how do you plan to that, as I am doing right now, if you tell us you are doing a show then you 43 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:05,680 will ask a show, you don't need anyone's permission to upload a show but if you have any questions 44 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:15,440 then drop into the hash, aug, cast, planet, channel on free node and chat with a live person 45 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:23,760 24-7, so I am going to just go to the state from this page, give a show, 46 00:06:23,840 --> 00:06:30,960 and I am going to go to the where is it now, blah, blah, blah, I will look for the calendar page, 47 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:41,200 it is number four upload your show, giving shows, what is in there, why, here we go upload your show, 48 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:46,560 the hash, the hash schedule is entirely community driven and we recommend that you decide 49 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:52,640 when your show will be released, there are only three days to wait until next free slot, 50 00:06:53,280 --> 00:07:04,640 please consider recording a show, yeah, so if I review that I did stuff you need to know page, 51 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:11,280 I may be not up to date with what the least things are, stuff you need to know, 52 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:21,840 I am thinking of a paragraph which is not too, I am not sure what you want to read because 53 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:29,200 this isn't really good, it is solved my problem with the audio clipping, headlines anyway, 54 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:33,600 just referring to say for my financial interest, it is enough you need to know, you will no longer 55 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:39,920 be allowed to edit each paragraph pages from Wikipedia, any positive decisions are made by each 56 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:45,760 per community, each paragraph stop as a project if there are not enough shows, important, 57 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:53,840 pay attention, support our patrons, we do not syndicate non-HPR shows, you are agreeing to 58 00:07:53,840 --> 00:08:00,320 license your show CC by SA, if you are interested to read your show and its entirety, 59 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:06,000 the audio feel show will not be moderately, your show will be signaled as containing 60 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:14,000 explicit content if it does, you determine when your show will be released, all the reservations 61 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:22,720 need to be approved, we use UTF8 and to end keep accessibility in mind, your show will be heard 62 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:28,800 by an international audience, I think about that, that would be no lie, yeah, year then month and 63 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:37,600 date, feed the reserve queue, the reserve queue is intended only to be used in the cases 64 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:45,280 whether still a gap in the schedule, 24 hours a part to release, this was known as emergency 65 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:53,200 queue but now can also be used when the host don't care when the shows are scheduled, they will 66 00:08:53,200 --> 00:09:00,080 be used on a first come first go basis, when there is no conflict with the schedule guidelines, 67 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:13,360 I think personal, these guidelines are always going to forget, I try to understand more 68 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:19,840 of one show so I better not do it two in the same week so I think I leave a gap, I think it's actually 69 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:23,760 two weeks, another member of the two or three weeks, how many weeks is it supposed to leave a gap for 70 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:30,160 and me personally, if you could put it into the reserve show and it deals with automatically 71 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:37,440 then that's great, I don't really care when the show is going and the schedule guidelines 72 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:44,960 you must have your audio recorded ready to upload before you pick a slot, always try and 73 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:50,960 fill in free slots that are available in the upcoming two weeks, if the queue is filling up 74 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:57,520 then please consider leaving your slots free for new contributors, if you have a non-agent show 75 00:09:57,520 --> 00:10:02,800 then find an event empty week and schedule it then, if you're uploading a series of shows 76 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:12,640 consider scheduling one every two weeks, interviews will be released sooner, so there you go 77 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:20,080 recording a podcast on this page you will find information on how to record a podcast 78 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:27,680 golden roll is any audio is better than no audio, so keep that in mind, it can record a 79 00:10:27,680 --> 00:10:34,080 portable media player record with a better thing on your computer, yeah and so on and so forth yeah 80 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:43,440 blah blah blah blah, um export the flag is set to level to 8 by set bit depth to 24, 81 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:52,320 yeah, according into the phone, according around people discussions avoid bidding back to 82 00:10:52,320 --> 00:11:00,880 in music, we mix down to mono, no need to admit it to the file, there's a big chunk of it picking 83 00:11:00,880 --> 00:11:08,000 a slot for your show, as I say from up in the view it's just keep it simple, I'm happy for it 84 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:14,480 for each be added to choose the slot and the only guidelines, you know, I'm not just going to 85 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:22,000 give you a slightly lighter for picking a not quite full in the guidelines, I'm sure 86 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:29,040 of not done that in all occasions, so yeah, I think that how much I would do is after 87 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:35,440 recording so far, let's see, a little bit 10 minutes, that's more than enough, I'll probably put 88 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:51,120 10 tones in between each section, so that I know how much attenuation I need to add in before 89 00:11:51,200 --> 00:12:01,040 distortion, before the distortion is gone, see how that goes, yeah, I don't know if HPRs changed 90 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:08,000 the audio leveling script, I think, or whatever, it's buying the scenes, but I'm definitely 91 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:17,680 hearing clipping, that I didn't hear in the original show, see that something we had to do with the 92 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:23,680 new version of that adastate, but I'm determined to get to the bottom of it anyway, and with that 93 00:12:23,680 --> 00:12:28,080 I think that's enough for what all those are clipping there, maybe I do need to turn my 94 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:33,680 mic levels down about actually, you know, that's funny, I'm just noticing the mic levels 95 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:39,360 look quite hot, is that adjustable, I don't know if that's or not of it's picked to the top, 96 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:46,480 but I don't know if I'm using an old version I've been to and I don't know if the recording 97 00:12:46,560 --> 00:12:51,920 levels actually work on this foil and I'm not going to use the mixer that comes at the 98 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:56,160 bone too, so I'm just telling the stone you've been to see if it makes a difference, oh no, it's 99 00:12:56,160 --> 00:13:00,080 it's not adjustable, so I need to go into the settings to do that, I'm talking to myself here, 100 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:12,320 maybe I do need to reduce the the levels a little bit on my mic here, but what I can't 101 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:20,160 understand as I said, I didn't hear that when I was playing it back, so who knows whether it's 102 00:13:20,160 --> 00:13:25,360 me, HPR, combination of both, I don't know, but hopefully let's get to the bottom of it, 103 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:32,160 so if anyone's got any questions about any of this, but let's listen to it, feel free to drop my 104 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:46,720 line, I can be contacted at msrex, at hpr, googlemail.com, as mrex, it's hpr, the at symbol googlemail.com, 105 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:50,960 hope none of you follow the signatureness, oh actually some of you do with the whole seat 106 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:54,720 where you're listening to the stone you, I forgot about that, that's the new policy, anyway, 107 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:58,640 hope you're all doing well and catch up with you later, just for now then bye! 108 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:10,560 You 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